What are the roles or purposes of the links and gallery within the article? Are they helpful?

Of all the points made in the article, which will you remember the longest?

Do all of the commencement speakers agree with each other? Is any of the advice actually wrong?

Here in Russia, on similar occasions, would the speakers make similar points? Would they make different points than those made by the speakers in this Forbes article? Which pieces of advice in the article seem most typically American to you? Which seem universally valid to you?

The writer includes her e-mail address and Twitter handle in her biography. If you were to write to her, what would you say about this article? (What did she do well, and what could she have done to make her article better?)

Words and expressions:

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